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1 COURSE COMPETENCIES FOR BIOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE competency evaluation method teaching method Chapter 1- Environmental Problems and their causes Define environment and identify the exam lecture elements of earth and solar capital Define sustainability and discuss issues exam lecture relating to resource availability versus use by industrialized countries Explain the concept of exponential exam lecture growth of human population Explain the concept of the tragedy exam lecture if the commons Define pollution and identify both exam lecture point and non-point sources of pollution Identify the factors that determine exam lecture a pollutant's effect on the environment

2 2 Discuss the conversion of human society exam lecture from a base in hunting/gathering, to agriculture to industry Identify strategies for sustainable exam lecture living Chapter 2- Science, Matter and Energy Define science and discuss the formulation exam lecture of a scientific law. Define environmental science and exam lecture explain how it is a multi-disciplinary science Define matter and distinguish among exam lecture elements, mixtures, and compounds Identify important organic and exam lecture inorganic compounds Define energy and identify different forms exam lecture

3 3 competency evaluation method teaching method Explain the Law of Conservation of exam lecture Matter Define nuclear radiation and define exam lecture half-life. Chapter 3- Ecosystems and How They Work Define basic terms such as exam lecture cell, metabolism and mutations Explain the cycling of matter and exam lecture nutrients and the process of photosynthesis Understand the differences in terms exam lecture/film such as species, population, habitat, community and ecosystem Explain the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, exam lecture phosphorous and sulfur Explain the such hydrologic cycle exam lecture components as evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, and percolation Discuss how humans interfere with exam lecture the natural hydrologic cycle

4 4 Chapter 4- Evolution and Biodiversity Define the following types of species: exam lecture specialists, native, immigrant, indicator and keystone Explain such species interactions as exam lecture/film predation, parasitism, mutualism and commensalism Chapter 5- Ecosystems: What are the Major Types, and What Can Happen to Them Define biomes and identify the exam lecture/films different types Describe the characteristics of exam lecture/film/map exercise a desert Distinguish among the different exam lecture/film/map exercise types of grassland biomes. Identify the differences in exam lecture/film/map exercise various forest biomes

5 5 Describe the life zones of oceans exam lecture/film and define estuary Identify and describe the exam lecture freshwater biomes Chapter 7- The Human Population Discuss issues influencing exam lecture population growth Define total fertility rate and exam` lecture explain why it is dropping in the U.S. Identify factors encouraging exam lecture/mortality statistical increased longevity exercise Discuss problems resulting exam lecture from increased urbanization around the world Chapter 18- Environmental Economics and Politics Explain how environmental protection exam lecture is economically prudent

6 6 Identify major environmental laws, exam lecture regulatory agencies, and watchdog groups Chapter 8- Risk, Toxicology, and Human Health Identify cultural, chemical, exam lecture physical and biological hazards to human health Identify types of toxic, safety, exam lecture carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic health hazards Identify biological health hazards exam lecture and name the world's deadliest diseases Chapter 15- Air and Air Pollution Differentiate between primary and exam lecture secondary pollutants and identify sources of each Identify some of the major air exam lecture pollution episodes worldwide Discuss the effects of air pollution exam lecture/film/internet exercise

7 7 Identify air pollution control methodology exam lecture/film Chapter 16- Climate, Global Warming, and Ozone Loss Define climate and its factors exam lecture/film Discuss factors determining patterns exam lecture/film of global air circulation Define greenhouse effect exam lecture Identify the major greenhouse gases exam lecture Describe anticipated impacts of a exam lecture warmer world Discuss causes and impacts of exam lecture damage to the ozone layer Identify attempts to prevent exam lecture stratospheric ozone depletion Chapter 11- Water Explain the importance of water exam lecture in agriculture, industry, transportation, recreation, and power generation

8 8 competency evaluation method teaching method Discuss groundwater and its exam lecture importance Identify classes of water pollutants exam lecture Discuss methods by which water exam lecture sources are protected Additional projects to be completed inside and outside of class include the preparation of an environmental quality report for each student s community and research projects related to environmental management activities in the Big South Fork Management Area, the Obed Wild and Scenic River and the Land Between the Lakes management area. The course often includes trips to wastewater treatment plants, wetlands and waste management facilities as lab activities.